The BBC sacked a presenter after a chimpanzee tweet about the royal baby of England | news from the world



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The BBC fired a British radio host who had tweeted the image of a chimpanzee dressed in clothes clad in clothes lying under the caption "Royal Baby leaves the hospital". to a little boy, Archie, the first Métis child to be born into a high ranking position in British royalty during recent history.

"I just got fired," Danny Baker, BBC Radio 5 Live's broadcaster, said on Twitter.

The BBC said the tweet was a serious misjudgment that went against "the values ​​we want to embody as a station".

"Danny is a brilliant broadcaster but will no longer present weekly shows with us".

Meghan, whose mother is African American and the father is white, has already been the target of racist comments on social media.

(This article was published by a news press feed without modification of the text, only the title was modified ed.)

First publication:
May 9, 2019 16h57 IST

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